Students in the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Program

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Students	Research interests
Jaime Anstee	Social Psychology of Aging; Gender, Class and Race; Prejudice and Discrimination; Evaluation Research
Megan Armstrong	Psychology and Law
Angela Broadus	Religion, gender, social identity, terror management theory
Joanne Brosh	Adolescent risk and health issues
Cami Brown	Risk taking behavior, decision-making, environmental psychology, romantic relationships
Kristy Cahoon	Interpersonal relationships (primarily romantic ones), mate selection and relationship maintenance
Lyssette Chavez	Psychology and law issues, i.e. Jury decision making, false confessions, expert witness testimony
Julie Chomos	Psychology and Law - Primarily interested in decision making processes
Laura Davidson	K-12 education, cultural identification and its effect on behavior, research methods, adolescent social and academic development
Ada Diaconu-Muresan	Gender and inequality
Maia Finholm	Social psychology and loss, social justice, ethnopolitcal conflict and vulnerable populations
David Flores	psychology & law, social inference, judgment & decision- making
Carlene Gonzalez	Psychology & law, judgments & decision-making, cultural & gender differences
Morgan Green	Health in regards to religion, education, adolescents, and community
Scott Hall	The interaction of culture and health
Susan Harris	Health & Aging, Conscious Aging, Gero-transcendence & Gender Issues
Edina Jambor	Business ethics, employee commitment in organizations, Self-esteem of the deaf, Intergroup relations between the hearing and the deaf
Kerry Kleyman	Interracial and multiracial interactions and identities, transracial adoptions, cross-cultural research, human trafficking, stereotypes and prejudice, and identity.
Barbara Larsen	Multi-method research approaches: The intersection of qualitative and quantitative methods. Development of applied research. Trauma, Terrorism, Genocide, Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, Health and Justice
Sam Lindsey	Law, Religion, Agency and Determinism, Parenting
Jennifer Lowman	Sociology of knowledge, sociology of education, social psychology of attitudes and decision making processes.
Val Lykes	gender roles and inequality, motivation and the psychology of money and happiness, religion in a social psychology context, romantic/interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and health psychology (in particular stress related studies).
Robyn Maitoza	Organizational behavior, gender, communication, group dynamics
Pete Martini
Aaron McVean	culture, inter-group relations, social cognition, social identity, social inequality
Sarah Merz	Psychology and the Law
Anita Miko	Psychology, law, religion, policy and social justice issues
Shane Moulton	Social cognition
Ted Oleson	Institutional Economics, Agent Based Modeling and System Dynamics; Social Movements; Internet and social movements; Terrorism
Joshua Padilla	Social identity, attitude change
Amit Patel	Psychology and the Law (specifically the qualitative aspects of trial consulting)
Clare Terese Pettis	Grief and Loss
Jenny Reichert	mostly mental illness and social psych and law
Janice Russell	Feminist psychology, vicim blame as it pertains to female victims of sexual assault
Kerwin Sands	Psychology and Law.  Particularly eyewitness accuracy and eyewitness testimony
Lorie Sicafuse	Psychology and Law, juvenile justice, gender, health psychology
Alexandra Sigillo	Psychology and law, specifically concerning policies and regulations dealing with children
Victoria Springer	Psychology and Law (organizational, systems), Justice (institutionalizing justice, private vs public justice), actual focus TBA
Bridgit Taylor
Rebecca Thomas	Law, Deviance, Gender
Kati Toth	Personal relationships
Irem Uz	Individualism-collectivism, language, decision making under risk
Jose Vargas
Dana Weiser	relationship attitudes, family influences on self-efficacy development, education and academic outcomes
Michael Williams	Educing Information (a.k.a. interrogation), Credibility Assessment (a.k.a. deception/honesty detection), Personality Assessment, Pedagogy of Improvisation.
Steve Wood	Psychology and Law (e.g. jury and juror decision making, attorney performance, media violence, sexual assault/aggression)
Marat Zagidullin (aka Zaguidoulline)	language, communication, interpersonal relationships